From: bbattey@u.washington.edu (B. Battey)
Subject: EVENT: Seattle,Mar5 - Karin LaPadula @ NWCA
Date: 3 Mar 1997 04:08:37 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


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 		NORTHWEST CYBERARTISTS PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS:

                             Karin LaPadula
		Digital Artist, Virtual Worlds Designer

                                Mar 5, 7PM

                      Speakeasy Internet Cafe Backroom

                     2304 2nd Ave in Seattle's Belltown


Karin LaPadula is a Seattle digital artist, watercolorist, and member
of Lockheed Martin Information Systems Virtual World Design group.
Originally an artist who used traditional media, she found computers
to be perfect tools for conveying inner landscapes, and for simulating
the outer landscapes sought in realistic scene simulation.

Karin holds a BA in Fine Art from Cornish College of the Arts in
Seattle, Washington, and a BS in Marketing from the University of
Maryland.  For the past nine years, she has been building 3D virtual
worlds for flight training, marine safety, driver training,
counter-terrorism, and interactive games.  She works in a networked
PC, HP/Apollo, and SGI environment.

Her digital images and landscapes have been published in Computer
Graphics World, School Arts magazines, and several VR industry
publications.  Her digital landscapes have been shown at Eurographics,
SIGGRAPH, and in gallery shows in Seattle, Boston, Portland, and
Eugene, Oregon.

In her presentation, Karin will show fly-throughs and slides of
virtual environments she has designed and built and will discuss some
of the techniques used to create the environments.  She will address
some of the considerations necessary for building real-time
environments, such as design for the target platform, polygon count
effect on system performance, texture map memory restrictions, texture
library construction strategies, and mitigation of texture seams on
polygonal databases.

She will also show some of her 2D and 3D computer fine art.


NorthWest CyberArtists web page:
http://nwlink.com/cyberartists

NorthWest CyberArtists Productions contact:
Burt Webb,phoenix@eskimo.com, 206-783-9065